Safety razor



March 10, 1931. H, J,.GA|sMAN 1,7965261 SAFETY RAZOR Filed sept. 19, 1928 n l l (Il, y {,LBHMM v ATTORNEY Vao i Patented` Mar. 1 0, 1931 @UNITE-D ,STATES PATENT OFFICEv HENRY J'. GAISMAN, NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO GILLETTE SAFETY'RAZOR COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE SAFETY RAZOR Application filed September 19, 1928. Serial No. 306,926.

The object of my invention is to provide a safety' razor in which a pivotal guard having stops to engage a blade edge will be retained by spring pressure in shaving position with the stops engaging the blade, and

` in which the guard will be held positively out of shaving relation lto the guard when for shaving, said projection being adapted to engage the abutment to positively retain the guard away from the blade when the guard is out of shaving relation to the blade.

- e My invention also comprises novel details Y of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein Fig. 1 is a side view of a safety razor embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a section on line 2, 2 in Fig. 1; Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 are sectional views showing the parts in different positions, Fig. 5 being a section on line 5, 5 in Fig. 2, and Fig, 7 is a plan view of the guard. j

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 indicates a main frame of the razor shown provided with spaced uprights 2 in which a blade-holder 3 (of any desired orwell known construction) is carried by a shaft 4 journaled in said uprights, all in a well known way. A roller 5 is also A shown journaled in said uprights and provided with a gear 6 in mesh with a gear 7 carried by said shaft 4 for rocking the blade holder when reciprocated along a strop 8 to sharpen the edge of blade 9. The frame l is 5G shown provided with a handle 10, and with spaced strop-tensioning members 11 and 12. f

A guard 13 is rovided with stops 14 (shown in hook-like orm) for retaininor the blade by engagement therewith at its edge portion. The guard is pivotally supported on frame 1, at one side of the handle, being shown provided with laterally extending ears or lugs 15 pivotally attached by rivets 16 to laterally extending ears or lugs 17 carried by frame 1, the ears 17 being shown extending from the strop-tensioning member 11. The guard member is shown provided with an opening 18 freely receiving the handle 10, whereby the guard may be manipulated by engagement of a finger with the extending portion of the guard member at 19, on the side of the handle opposite the stops 14.y

The guard member 13 is shown provided with a spring-like projection or finger 20, which may be formed by cutting away the metal of the guard member at 21, (Fig. 7 The projection 20 is adapted to engage an abutment 22 on frame 1 for retaining the guard member in different positions. The abutment 22 is shown on the strop-tensioning member 11, and said projection. may be formed by pressing out or embossin the metal of ymember 1, said abutment being shown provided with a curved outer surface to be engaged by the projection 20. Said projection engages the abutment 22 in a spring-like manner.

- Vhen the guard and the blade are in cooperative relation for shaving the projection 2O will engage the abutment 22 with spring action, at a point behind the centre of the abutment, and the abutment will enter the cutaway portion or opening 21 at the free end of the projection to permit the engagement of the abutment and the projection as shown in Fig.3 and thereby the projection will retain the blade edge in engagement with the stops or hooks 14 to retain the guard resiliently pressed with respect to the blade edge. vWhen the guard member is tilted or turned on its pivot 16 from the position shown in Fig. 3 to the position shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the projection 20 will flex and slide along the abutment 22, sothat when the guard is moved .sufficiently tov assume the position shown in Y Fig. 6 the projection 2O Will lie against the i abutment 22, as at a point Withoutlits course and 'thereby the guard-Will be positively retained away from the blade retaining position,andin a position Vfor stropping the blade edge, as indieatedin Figli. The said positive retainngleftle-guard out of blade retaining position assures that the guard will not engage the stropWhen the razor is recipsaid members having'a laterally extending abutment, a blade Yholder carried at one side of the lframe bythe frame, a guard pivotally` Ycarried by the frame and provided with aVV projection at one side oftheframe to engage the .abutmenusaidprojectionbeing `of spring- V like charac-ten"adaptedl to engage lthe, abutment tofretain theV guard resiliently pressedV toward shaving position and to KVretainthe guardout of shaving'position'.V Y

. if A s'aiiety razor-.as setorth. inclaim 3 in Which theabutment hasaourved-outersur- .-:ace tolbe engaged slidably by the projection.-

p 5. safety razor asset orthin Claim 3 1` 1n Whiehthe abutment'is pressed out of the metal of thestrop-tensioning member.

j HENRY. emanan retainrthe ystops 14 lin engagement With the bladeed 4e for shavin asin Fig. `3.

v advantageofi my yi rnprovement is V,that the` stops or hooks 14e Willbe held in resilient kengagement With the blade in ,theshaving position of the latter and the guard, and the I claim-is: Y

guard will be positively held vout of relation to the blade'when moved therefrom, andthe guard will not spontaneously return to blade retaining position du-ringfstropping of the blade o-rothervvise, i .1 if f' g y I have illustrated myi-mprovement in connection With a Well known Vform of auto Vstrop safety razor,;but myV inventionyis not limited tothe detailed-construction set forth, since Y the samemay be'varied,-.Within ithe scope of the appended claims, Without dep a-rting from. the spirit-ofmy invention.

Y Having noxvde'scrib d1 my l; A safetyy razonfeomprising .a frame, a

i Y blade holder carried thereby, a `guard member pivotally'oarriedbythe-rame at one side' thereof, a 'lateral-lylextending .abutment/carinlvention. A what ried by the frame and extending toward the guard member, and a' spring-.actingprojection carried by .the guard vmember at one side of the frame, the guard l'memberhaving an opening to l'receive the abutment, whereby theprojeetion Wil'l engage behind the abutment: with the -l-'atter in' said 'openingwhen fthe guardfis in' blade retaining position and the f projection:lvvillfbear againstfthe abutment when ltheguard isout of blade retaining positionl *to hold thejguard in the last fnamed position'.

2. [A safety razor'as YSet forth in claim l in 'which the abutment has a curvedsurface to be en-gagedby the projection to permit the ylatter to ,slide freely, along abut' ment,V Y, V-

8. A safety razor comprising aframe provided With stroptensioning members, one .of 

